Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Johnston

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

Gary Zukav

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

Jeanette Winterson

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

Jeaniene Frost

All hail the dragon slayer!" (Bones)

Jeaniene Frost

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!

Eoin Colfer

Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it." Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?" Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Eoin Colfer

Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

George R. R. Martin

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

George R. R. Martin

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

Ezra Pound

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Francis Bacon

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

It's up to the Dragons to have a good look at where they want to be in five or 10 years time,

Ernest Cline

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

Cassandra Clare

Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.

Cassandra Clare

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Ken Kesey

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

Kerry King

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Jorge Luis Borges

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

Jo Brand

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

Neal Stephenson

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

Joe Bob Briggs

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

Joseph Campbell

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

Loren Eiseley

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

Gail Carson Levine

I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true ...

Meg Cabot

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

Lily Cole

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

Lev Grossman

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

Margaret Atwood

My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.